Jim Boeheim
Jim Boeheim
James Arthur "Jim" Boeheimis the head coach of the men's basketball team at Syracuse University. Boeheim has guided the Orange to nine Big East regular season championships, five Big East Tournament championships, and 28 NCAA Tournament appearances, including three appearances in the national title game. In those games, the Orange lost to Indiana in 1987, on a last-second jump shot by Keith Smart, and to Kentucky in 1996, before defeating Kansas in 2003 with All-American Carmelo Anthony...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityLyons, NY
Connecticut is a team that can beat anybody, anytime, anyplace. They're the best team in our league, in the country. They've been there. They know what they're doing. They've got veteran guys who know how to play, know how to win.
I think I may be more excited about coaching than I've ever been, ... I think I realize that I'm closer to the end than I am to the beginning. I know I don't have 29 years left. So, I guess I'm appreciating it more.
They're a very good defensive team, and they deserved to win the basketball game.
At times maybe he could play harder. It comes and goes. We need more consistency from him. He's our inside presence.
Scheduling is too much in this league for television and not enough for the players. It's very disheartening to look at scheduling and see that. Granted, TV's important, but it shouldn't run the league.
Before the start of the conference, Eastern basketball was quite fragmented, ... The Big East gave Eastern basketball a national identity, and the Dome was the perfect stage for those nationally televised games.
Our defense at the end was tremendous by all our guys. They couldn't get a shot the last couple of chances.
But when they're freshman and sophomores, George Mason can beat that team.
If they beat me, I'll just have to raise more than they do next time.
Our defense was terrible. We were just absolutely terrible.
Gerry had as good a four games here as anybody I've ever seen. He just wanted to win.
Defensively, we did a good job, as well as you could expect at this stage of the year. We really helped each other. Our inside guys did a nice job. We really didn't give them too many open looks. We were very good.
It's certainly a tremendous challenge. I don't know if it'll be any tougher than when we had three Final Four teams and two teams get to the Sweet Sixteen. It can't be much tougher than that, but it'll be difficult.
Seven rebounds, that's pretty special. (He played) 14 minutes and got seven rebounds. Our other center (Darryl Watkins) got one rebound in 25 minutes, so that's pretty good.